Charles Manson was abandoned by his mother and never knew his father. He was never the object of anyone’s even distant affection. His birth mother, Kathleen Maddox, was sixteen when he was born. She was either promiscuous or a prostitute or both, disappearing for days at a time and leaving Charles with a grandmother or […]
The term “cult” refers most often to a group of people with usually atypical beliefs living in relative isolation from the world. They tend to centralize around one charismatic person—the cult leader—who orders the beliefs, behaviors, and customs of all the other members. Many cults stand in as de facto new religions for their followers,
James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana. His father was a disabled World War I veteran. His father’s illness led to financial difficulties, which in turn resulted in intense marital problems between Jones’s parents. Jones grew up in a home which lacked plumbing and electricity. The
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Keith Raniere was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 26, 1960. His father worked in advertising and his mother was a dance instructor. He was still young when his parents were separated, about 8 years old. Raniere later claimed that he had been inspired to start NXIVM, by reading an Isaac Asimov book about
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